An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition
This exhibition considers how artists have used a variety of printmaking techniques to exploit the potential of the printed line, from the thick velvety line of drypoint and the heavy cross-hatching of etching to delicate wood engraving and boldly coloured screenprints and lithographs.
Spanning the 20th century and up to the present day, the exhibition will include Walter Sickert's masterly cross-hatched etching The Old Middlesex (c.1910), Ben Nicholson's rich drypoint Halse Town 1949 (1949), Eduardo Chillida's bold etchings and David Hockney's pared down linear etchings in Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C. P. Cavafy (1966-67). The use of colour will be explored in screenprints by Bridget Riley and Kenneth Martin, as well as Simon Patterson's witty lithograph reworking of the lines of the London tube map.
TOUR DATES & VENUES
6 April – 2 June 2019, Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay
6 July - 8 September 2019, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
21 September - 9 November 2019, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
16 November 2019 - 5 January 2020, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
11 January - 1 March 2020, Burton Art Gallery, Bideford
19 September - 14 November 2020, City Museum & Art Gallery, Worcester
24 July - 10 October 2021, The Beaney, Canterbury
23 October 2021 - 15 January 2022, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery
19 February - 8 May 2022, The Granary Gallery, Berwick
8 October 2022 - 5 February 2023, Hay Castle
18 February - 14 May 2023, The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum